Chapter Twenty-One: Safe Hands

Chapter Twenty-One: Safe HandsThe silence after that settled differently.Not heavy the way it had been before. More like something that had been very tight had finally been allowed to loosen, just slightly. I was still at the table, both hands wrapped around my mug, eyes dry now. The crying had taken something with it when it left — not the pain, but the pressure of it. Like a valve that had needed opening for a long time.Lisa was watching me across the table with the patient expression she wore when she was giving someone space to land.I breathed in. Out."Okay," I said quietly. Not to her. Just — okay.She gave it another moment. Then she straightened in her chair."There's something else," she said.I looked at her."The company." She kept her voice level, practical. "The original documents — the ones that show you are a registered co-owner. Your name on the partnership deed, the certificate of incorporation, everything that proves that business belongs to both of you." She paus

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Chapter 22: My Ex

Chapter 22: My ExEdward's POVSandra was already on my lap when the office door locked behind us.Her mouth found mine before I could say a word. Soft at first, then hungry. I pulled her closer by the hips. She straddled me properly, knees on either side of the chair, and started working the buttons of my shirt open one by one. My hands slid under her blouse and pushed it up. She broke the kiss just long enough to pull it over her head and drop it on the floor.“Missed this,” she murmured against my mouth.I didn’t answer with words. I kissed her harder. She reached between us, found my belt, then the zipper. The sound of it opening cut through the quiet office. Her hand slipped inside, warm fingers wrapping around me, stroking slow and deliberate.I was already hard. She knew it. She always knew.Her thumb brushed over the head and I exhaled through my teeth. She kept the rhythm steady while her tongue slid against mine. I could feel the heat building fast, the kind that made thinkin

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Chapter Twenty-Three: Blank

Chapter Twenty-Three: Blank*Edward's POV*Sandra's building came into view just before eight.I pulled up to the entrance and kept the engine running. She gathered her bag from the back seat and paused before getting out, one hand on the door, turning to look at me with that expression she wore when she wanted to say something and was deciding how much of it to say."Don't take too long," she said."I told you. It's handled.""You keep saying that.""Because it keeps being true."She looked at me for a second longer. Then she leaned across and kissed me once — firm, unhurried — and pulled back and got out without another word. I watched her walk to the entrance, the door sliding open for her, and then she was gone.I sat in the quiet car for a moment.*Forty-eight hours.*I had said it clearly. Simply. There was nothing complicated about it. You either sign or I make the decision. Isabella was many things but she was not stupid. She would have understood exactly what I meant.I pulled

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All Chapters of AFTER DIVORCE : Chapter 21 - Chapter 23

Chapter Twenty-One: Safe Hands

Chapter 22: My Ex

Chapter Twenty-Three: Blank